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Five Centuries of English Bookbinding by Nixon, Howard M
- Bookseller: Webster's Fine Books & Maps, ABAC,ILAB
 (CA)
- Seller Inventory #: 463
- Edition: Deluxe edition limited to 15 dedicated opies, signed by the aut
- Publisher: Scolar Press,
- Place: London:
- Date published: 1978
- Pages: 242 pp
Description
London:: Scolar Press, , 1978. Deluxe edition limited to 15 dedicated opies, signed by the author. 8vo,. Illustrated. full red nigerian goatskin, with gilt edges and tooled in gold, central black medallion onlay surrounded by two floral and leaf rolls, black pigsuede fly leages, housed in a full nigerian goatskin slipcase with black edging, red panels and hand lettering-bound by Zaensdorf. Fine. Plates 1-4 taken from the second printing.
gilt : Decorative patterns imbedded into the affected portion of a book. Often appears on the boards or the spine, and may be very simple, to elegant, to ludicrous.
plates : Full page illustrations or photographs. Plates are printed separately from the text of the book, and bound in at production. I.e., they are not sewn as parts of gatherings.
8vo : Short for Octavo, A book whose page size is approximately 8-10 inches tall. The size is based on a sheet of paper 25 inches by 38 inches, the size of paper traditionally used by book printers, which has been folded and cut into 16 pages..
Unfortunately often misunderstood to mean 8 volumes.
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